California lawmakers on Friday passed a watered-down version of what state Senate President Kevin de Leon had billed as part of the “most far-reaching effort to fight climate change in the history of our nation.”

The U.K. government rejected a 5.4 billion-pound ($8.3 billion) proposal to build a giant offshore wind farm in Navitus Bay, saying it would harm protected views from a coast designated as a World Heritage Site.

These developments, such as the Clean Power Plan (CPP) seem to be setting up another big boost to the renewable energy market, but they are going to both require and create huge amounts of data: data needed by the states to ensure CPP compliance, and market data on the clean energy deployed to meet the CPP’s goals.

Adding a massive feather to its renewable energy cap, India now lays claim to the world’s first fully solar-powered airport. Located in the coastal city of Kochi in the southwestern state of Kerala, the newly inaugurated solar plant brings India one significant step closer to securing its position as a frontrunner in the global solar race.

The energy business can no longer be differentiated by simply applying more improvements via mechanical engineering and physics. The next wave of innovation will be driven by sensors and data – in other words, the Internet of Things.

Public finance for geothermal needs to increase seven to 10 fold – from $7.4 billion currently to as much as $73 billion – in order to drive enough private investment to meet developing countries’ deployment targets of 23 GW by 2030, a recent report by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) found.